From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:57:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Ignore SIGXFSZ. Fixes #490453.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.1c1~428
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=df8adcd7ba210291c01a6c59b00139fe1e1a1f48;p=python

Ignore SIGXFSZ. Fixes #490453.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_largefile.py b/Lib/test/test_largefile.py
index 352fae07ce..abfee39e98 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_largefile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_largefile.py
@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@
 import test_support
 import os, struct, stat, sys
 
+try:
+    import signal
+    # The default handler for SIGXFSZ is to abort the process.
+    # By ignoring it, system calls exceeding the file size resource
+    # limit will raise IOError instead of crashing the interpreter.
+    oldhandler = signal.signal(signal.SIGXFSZ, signal.SIG_IGN)
+except (ImportError, AttributeError):
+    pass
+
 
 # create >2GB file (2GB = 2147483648 bytes)
 size = 2500000000L